Gone are the days of teaching assignments and resulting student work remaining within the confines of the classroom walls. Social media has connected the world. Parents (and students) use their phones to connect to friends, family, and virtual friends to keep up with personal happenings, and to conduct business and take care of . Universities, business and even news media have adapted their public "faces" to include interactive components of what were once static information-only webpages. Districts and schools are following suit, and now teachers are beginning to realize that the walls must come down if students are to succeed in life after school.
The tools on this page can be used by teachers, both professionally and as a teaching tool, and students to demonstrate and share knowledge experiences. As we use the tools and gather more information content will be updated to reflect new ideas and tools.
Social Media for Teaching: Storify, Glogster and Smore
When we hear "Social Media" we immediately think "Facebook." True, but Facebook is not the only electronic media source, altho possibly the most widely known and popular at the moment.
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for students K-12 define that students produce and distribute writing:
(4) clear and coherent in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
(5) developed and strengthened by planning, revision, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
(6) using technology, including the Internet, to publish and interact and collaborate with others.
Group 1A Responses:
1. How should this tool be integrated into classroom instruction? What gradaul release process will be used to integrate this tool across the curriculum?
2. What are the goals/end results for the implementation of this tool in the classroom?
3. How will the use of the tool be aligned to CCSS?
4. Will students or teachers publish?
5. How will the effectiveness of this tool be evaluated for levels of implementation?
6. What are the implications of tools like this for student learning away from school?
7. How will tools like these be built into written curricula?
8. In what ways can the tool be used to differentiate learning experiences?
9. What role can the development of LDC modules play into the effective use of this tool? How might essential questions be used to set the stage for developing outcomes for projects such as collaboration with pathologists from the CDC to identify sources of specific diseases and possible cures?
Breaking Down the Classroom Walls
Gone are the days of teaching assignments and resulting student work remaining within the confines of the classroom walls. Social media has connected the world. Parents (and students) use their phones to connect to friends, family, and virtual friends to keep up with personal happenings, and to conduct business and take care of . Universities, business and even news media have adapted their public "faces" to include interactive components of what were once static information-only webpages. Districts and schools are following suit, and now teachers are beginning to realize that the walls must come down if students are to succeed in life after school.
The tools on this page can be used by teachers, both professionally and as a teaching tool, and students to demonstrate and share knowledge experiences. As we use the tools and gather more information content will be updated to reflect new ideas and tools.
Preliminary reading:
Wiki or Blog, Which to Choose?
Wiki? What's a wiki, anyway?
According to Wikipedia:"A wiki (WIK**-ee//) is a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser usually using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor. Wikis are powered by wiki software. Most are created collaboratively."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki, accessed 11/12/2012)
Watch this short video for a collaborative use of a wiki (skip the ad if re-directed to YouTube),
Wikis in Plain English, from ​Common Craft, http://www.commoncraft.com/video/wikis
Articles and Resources about wikis:
Blogs
Blogging is the posting of journal-like pages to a website. Over 500,000 bloggers (!) earn their living via blogging.Resources for Blogs and Blogging:
Social Media for Teaching: Storify, Glogster and Smore
When we hear "Social Media" we immediately think "Facebook." True, but Facebook is not the only electronic media source, altho possibly the most widely known and popular at the moment.Heard of a mash-up? Glogster identifies its site as a Visual Communication Network. Preview the sample glogs at http://edu.glogster.com/
What about younger students and one-page publications? Can we get away from software installations or use an iPad?
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for students K-12 define that students produce and distribute writing:
Group 1A Responses:
1. How should this tool be integrated into classroom instruction? What gradaul release process will be used to integrate this tool across the curriculum?
2. What are the goals/end results for the implementation of this tool in the classroom?
3. How will the use of the tool be aligned to CCSS?
4. Will students or teachers publish?
5. How will the effectiveness of this tool be evaluated for levels of implementation?
6. What are the implications of tools like this for student learning away from school?
7. How will tools like these be built into written curricula?
8. In what ways can the tool be used to differentiate learning experiences?
9. What role can the development of LDC modules play into the effective use of this tool? How might essential questions be used to set the stage for developing outcomes for projects such as collaboration with pathologists from the CDC to identify sources of specific diseases and possible cures?